Quotes from Kathryn Petras

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. —Charles F. Kettering businessman

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. —George Washington Carver scientist

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. —Meridel Le Sueur writer and activist

You must do the thing you think you cannot do. —Eleanor Roosevelt humanitarian

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

I want to explain my mistakes. This means I do only the things I completely understand. —Warren Buffett

Don't believe the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing—it was here first.

A couple of times I've been called on to do things–jobs or whatever–where I've felt, Maybe I'm not quite ready. Maybe it's a little early for this to happen to me. But the rules are so ingrained. "Say yes, and you'll figure it out afterward" has helped me to be more adventurous. It has definitely helped me be less afraid. —Tina Fey comedian and writer

At the day of judgment we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done. —Thomas à Kempis

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success. —Pablo Picasso artist

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. —Rumi (Jalal ad-Din)

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive. At that time, we turn around and say, yes, this is obviously where I was going all along. It's a good idea to try to enjoy the scenery on the detours, because you'll probably take a few. —Bill Watterson cartoonist

If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks. —George Allen

let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear, but around in awareness. —James Thurber

If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend yourself you should say: "He obviously does not know me very well, since there are so many other faults he could have mentioned." —Epictetus

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. —James Russell Lowell Poet, Editor, and Diplomat

Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success. —Sivananda Saraswati

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. —Flannery O'Connor

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. —Isaac Asimov Writer

To Thine Own Self Be True Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you. —Johnny Depp actor

Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort. —Franklin D. Roosevelt U.S. president

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.